Glimpse

Glimpse is a high-action, standalone young adult dystopian novel from Text Prize-winning fantasy author Jane Higgins.

The city authorities have abandoned the D-Zone as damaged beyond repair. It's a no-go area where ongoing earthquakes threaten to destroy what's left. But Jonah, Bas, and everyone else trying to survive in the devastation there can't leave—they're 'illegals', without citizenship, without rights.

Jonah can see the quakes—before the ground shudders and grinds, before the buildings fall. Glimpsing is a rare ability and a great survival asset. It has attracted the attention of the entertainment company GlimpseCorp and the cult movement People for a New Nation. Both are desperate to control and cash in on this remarkable power.

When Bas joins People for a New Nation and disappears, Jonah knows his friend is in great danger. He knows that GlimpseCorp, with its reality TV programme, offers a way to save him—and a way to bring new hope to the people of the D-Zone.

But Jonah's plan puts everything, including his own life, at risk.

Glimpse is a compelling adventure, an intriguing story of conflict, power, manipulation, love, and friendship, set in a richly imagined world that is in many ways very much like our own.